What filesystem do you use in these days? btrfs? ext4? xfs?

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leonchik1976 · Post by **leonchik1976** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:43 pm

Is btrfs reliable as ext4? or it's preferable to stick to ext4? Anyone who has experience? Also, opensuse uses XFS for /home - please your suggestions

alamahant · Post by **alamahant** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:55 pm

I use ext4 almost everywhere.
Btrfs i only use for lxd storage pool.I dont know much about subvolumes etc though.
I prefer ext4 or xfs on lvm.
xfs is very good ,fast and "scalable"-- you call it(?),but you cant shrink an xfs partition.fedora and centos use xfs everywhere.

Post by **Banana** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:08 pm

since I do not need any special stuff from a filesystem I use ext4 all the time.

Post by **pietinger** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:03 pm

Banana wrote:since I do not need any special stuff from a filesystem I use ext4 all the time.

+ 1

Ant P. · Post by **Ant P.** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:45 pm

btrfs for everything except boot partitions (vfat/ext4)

mike155 · Post by **mike155** » Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:07 pm

I want a rock-solid filesystem: ext4

Fitzcarraldo · Post by **Fitzcarraldo** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:59 am

Main laptop (BIOS-MBR) 5 years old
ext2 on HDD /boot partition
ext4 on two HDD partitions (/ and /home)
swap HDD partition
NTFS on HDD data partition
F2FS on SSD (10 months old) data partition

Second laptop (BIOS-MBR) 10 years old
ext4 on three HDD partitions (/boot, / and /home)
swap HDD partition
NTFS on HDD Windows partition

Desktop (UEFI-GPT)
vfat on EFI System Partition
ext4 on one HDD partition
swap HDD partition

Server (BIOS-GPT) 4 years old
ext2 on microSD Card /boot partition
ext4 on four HDD partitions on two RAID1 arrays (/, swap and two data partitions)

Nettop (BIOS-MBR) 10 years old
ext4 on / partition
swap partition

Various external USB HDDs various ages between 10 years old and 2 years old
NTFS

No complaints with any of these filesystems. Heavy use of all of them.

Post by **Juippisi** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:39 am

ext4 everywhere. I've lost 2 filesystems with btrfs on Gentoo and don't want to try anything "experimental" after that. ext4 just works.

Funnily my opensuse laptop has been running btrfs on / for years without failure now...

steve_v · Post by **steve_v** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:15 am

Ext4 and ZFS, depending on the situation. VFAT for windoze interop. That covers everything from flash drives and laptops to enterprise-grade storage arrays, and I don't really see the need for anything else in between.

I've tried to like BTRFS several times, but next to ZFS it's horribly incomplete and next to ext4 it's slow and unstable. I've lost data to its many bugs.
Maybe when the long-promised parity RAID actually works (without trashing your data) and the tools aren't a complete bear to use I'll try it again, but right now ZFS is so far ahead it's not even a contest.

leonchik1976 · Post by **leonchik1976** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:44 am

Thank you all

So i will stick to old and reliable ext4

fturco · Post by **fturco** » Tue Aug 18, 2020 7:21 am

I'm in the process of switching back from ext4 to btrfs mostly because the former lacks checksum support for data and I want to avoid bit rot.

nikolis · Post by **nikolis** » Sat Nov 14, 2020 1:13 pm

Me too, i use ext4 almost everywhere.

DONAHUE · Post by **DONAHUE** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 2:51 pm

reiserfs

CaptainBlood · Post by **CaptainBlood** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:05 pm

ext4 everywhere.

Looking forward for kernel-5.10 ext4 performance enhancements, hopefully applicable here.
Forever waiting for btrfs stabilized RAID 5/6 to switch.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.

Etal · Post by **Etal** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:38 pm

I've mostly used ext4 since it came out, but a few years ago started to go with xfs. The selling feature for me is reflink support.

krinn · Post by **krinn** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 5:20 pm

ext4 everywhere
search the forum for users with ext4 weirdness, search again and dig dig
search the forum for users with btrfs weirdness, don't worry you won't have to search long

389292 · Post by **389292** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:59 pm

btrfs on root for two months now, so far so good.
won't risk my /home yet though.

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:14 pm

I used to use reiser 3 for many years, but the last 1-2 years I've swapped all over to btrfs.

Note: I'm not using raid, just normal single disk (desktop, laptop), though my backup system is btrfs w/mirrored raid, nothing fancy.
Pretty happy with it.

dmpogo · Post by **dmpogo** » Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:49 pm

I use ext4 on new desktop/laptop installations, and, of course, vfat for boot partition

(finally had to compile it in into the kernel, after 20 years of progress, a bit of irony here)

I have an older machines, with some partitions still reiserfs3, which I used widely in 2004-2013 (especially on /var and /home), and it stayed.
boot partition on non-UEFI machines are ext2

I also has a large storage disks, on which I use xfs

And now I have looked and saw that one my external drive is stuck at ext3

Goverp · Post by **Goverp** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:40 am

F2fs for rootfs on NVMe and ext4 RAID10 for /home

thespecificocean · Post by **thespecificocean** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:52 pm

I myself, in any linux distro I've used, just used the default ext4. I know the differences between all the files systems to an extent I just don't know what to use em for.

Website · Post by **Zucca** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:16 pm

I use btrfs almost everywhere. Periodic snapshots have saved me from user mistakes so many times...

figueroa · Post by **figueroa** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:46 am

ext4 everywhere, and ext3 before that. I more or less understand it and know how to drive it. I don't need the grief of trying to adopt something new. I don't see my needs exceeding what ext4 delivers.

Post by **toralf** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:10 pm

Ant P. wrote:btrfs for everything except boot partitions (vfat/ext4)

same here although I do prefer etx2 for /boot (if it is a separate volume)

sabayonino · Post by **sabayonino** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:58 pm

XFS for / and /home
EXT4 for backup-data